St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

A railroad fight has begun in Indianapolis.
The indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield
Company enters the Union passenger station
over the tracks of the Indianapolis, Cincin-
natl, St. Louis and Chicago Company, using
600 or 700 feet of that line, and has been pay
ing for the privilege. They grew tired of
paying out money and proposed building
track of their own. To do this it was neces-
sary to cross the tracks of the other company
On the night of the 11th the Decatur people
put $50 men at work, and the crossing was
almost completed before the officials of the
other road learned what was going on. They
then ordered locomotive and force of men
to the scene and attempted to stop the work.
The crossing was a sort of temporary affair,
intended to establish the legal right of the De-
catur people, and the Big -Four people tried
to demolish it by running a locomotive upon
it. The locomotive was thrown from the
track, and while the Big -Four gang was en-
gagged in replacing it, the Decatur people
practically completed another temporary
crossing
The annual report of the board of visitors
at the Naval Academy shows that seventeen
cadets We're found deficient, three in the
first class, three in the second nine in the
third and two in the fourth class. Thirteen
of the deficient cadets are recommended to
be dropped and four to be re-examined.
At meeting Of the sanitary board Of Sa-
vannah, Ga, DR.. Bruner was appointed to
visit all ports of Florida on the Gulf and At
lantic coast, and examine thoroughly the
quarantine regulations in force.
In the Massachusetts House of Represent
atives the proposed prohibitory amendment
to the State constitution failed for want of a
two-thirds vote. Of the 142 members re-
corded in favor of the measure 126 were Re
publicans, thirteen were Democrats, one
Independent-Repub one independent
Democrat and one independent. Of the
seventy-seven recorded against it seventeen
were Republicans, tifty-eight Democrats and
two dependent-Democrats.
A member of one of the most illustrious
families in Austria, Prince Alfred Won
Wrede has shocked the nerves of the aris-
tocracy by setting up as a green grocer and
fruiterer at Perctholdsdorf, near Vienna.
The prince, having become financially
ruined, has decided that in order to make
money good trade is better than small
government appointment, and he has SEN
siblv decided to attend to his business in
person.
Great damage has been done in West Vir-
ginia and the contiguous portion OF ONO
during the last ten days by continuous and
heavy storms. Railroad travel has been
greatly interrupted, bridges have been washed
away, live stock drowned, crops ruined, and
valuable timber carried off. At New Mar
tinsville, the Methodist church was wrecked
| by lightning.
| The temperature at Charleston, S. c., on
| the 10th inst, reached ninety seven in the
| shade There was one fatal sunstroke.
| The blast furnaces and steel mills of the
| South Chicago Rolling Mill have closed be
cause of the exhaustion of the supply Of
coke, and 1900 of the 21OO men employed
are idle The rail mill has been shut
down and the 75O men employed there ''aic
Off" When the strike in the coke region
ends the mills will resume.
The Amalgamated Association Convention
at Pittsburg, continue consideration Of thu
wages question. The boiling and mucl
scales have been decided upon. The boilers
scale is IS so on two-cent card.
General Land Commissioner Sparks ha
advised the attorneys for purchaser of lan'
in Nebraska from the Burlington and Mis-
souri River Railroad Company that III
more patents can be issued to said compan,
for lands north of the line of the road il
that State for the reason that the compan,
has already received patents, under forme
administrations of the land Office, for 200,
600 acres more than it is entitled to-" Th
commissioner some time ago recommends
suit to recover this excess.
During the session of the Machine Con
structors Convention, at Pittsburg, it wa
resolved to comply with the resolution passe
at the General Assembly of the Knights Il
Labor. at Richmond, making the first Mon
day in September a labor holiday.
The Pennsylvania board of revision q
taxes recently received from the audito
general copy Of the act repeating the ia
on household furniture, pleasure carriage
and watches Until ruling has been OF
tained from the proper authorities the boar
declines to express an opinion as to when th
law becomes operative.
Adjutant General Gray, ofthe Grand Arm
Of the Republic, according to telegra1
from Madison, Wis, is engaged in issuin
to all the posts in the country an importar
document in the nature of dependent pei
sion bill, whose passage will be urged upo
the next Congress. 1t was drafted by th
national pension committee Of the Gran
Army of the Republic, composed of Geore
S. Merrill, of Lawrence, Mass; Louis Wal
ner of Philadelphia James Tanner, {
Brooklyn; John c. Linehan, of Penacool
N. H.; and John S. Kountz, of Toledo,
This committee was appointed by Command
er-in-C Chief Fairchild under resolution {
the National Encampment.
1t is officially announced that Empero
William, in consequence Of an abdomin'
cramp, has been confined to his bed for tt
last few days. He is also suffering frol
catarrhal irritation of the eyelids.
Captain Lee, commanding the troops
Nogales, Ariz., thinks the soldiers are pres
ing so closely on the hostile Indians that Il
latter cannot reach Sonora. It is believe
that the Indians will be deferred from goir
to the mountains of Sonora by the fact tn
the volcano near Pavispe is still pouring OF
volumes of lava.